Trump to turn American military into the world's greatest protection racket

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Trump to turn American military into the world's greatest protection racket

by Mark Sumner at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/22/1550939/-Trump-to-turn-American-military-into-world-s-greatest-protection-racket

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Hey. Nice world you got there. Be a shame if, oh, someone was to break it.

Donald Trump seems to have a bit of a problem with the word “ally.” Also with an idea called “strategy.” And he has very little use for that thing called “peace.” While he casually flips out the standard comments about supporting our allies around the world, the idea that supporting an ally requires … support, appears to baffle him. So does the idea that the United States might base military in other nations for our own benefit.

… I've always said, wow, I never understood it. Because they said the United States spends ten times the money on its military than anybody else in the world. And I said, wow, China has a big military, all these -- that's surprising. But, you know. I was building buildings and things. I never really gave it too much thought. And then I realized -- and I remember, I always remember, we spend so much more than anybody else. We're protecting everybody in the world.

Yes. Wow. Trump noticed that the America military is costly and engaged in the role of world policeman. Which seems like the kind of thing that Trump might have learned when he was kicked out of prep school for bad behavior and went off to the New York Military Academy at age 13. But hey, better late then never.


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